Charles Hannum, co-founder of NetBSD posted to 3 major BSD lists saying that "The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this
happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to fix the situation."

Because each of the BSDs takes "a complete OS" and rewrites it to work on its own kernel. Also, on a superficial level (which is exactly where many of these disputes take place), the man pages often say things like "FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Manual", not "BSD Manual".

Because each of the BSDs takes "a complete OS" and rewrites it to work on its own kernel. Also, on a superficial level (which is exactly where many of these disputes take place), the man pages often say things like "FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Manual", not "BSD Manual".

No. BSD != Linux. When will Linux fanboys realize that the Linux way is not the best way for everyone??

There is not a common BSD userland like GNU, although much of the userland is derived from a common code base (BSD 4.4). Each branch of the BSDs have introduced their own tools, and they tend to be easily portable between BSDs. For example, OpenBSD created pf, OpenSSH, hotplugd, (and soon OpenCVS).

Also the kernels *are* different for good reason. OpenBSD does not have efficent multi-CPU support because they would have to comprimise on security. So they are taking the slow approach to adding that particular feature, their implimentation will be SECURE first, performance can wait. Linux (and FreeBSD) often has the opposite approach, support as much as possible and fix broken/unsecure implimentations later. And that's ok, it's just a different philosophy.

The main thing that Linux people need to understand is that there is *a lot* of cross pollination between the BSDs. If one has a great idea then it will likely be adopted by the others (pf is a good example). There is a ton of benefit to having three different OSs that can borrow the best code from each other.

Because each of the BSDs takes "a complete OS" and rewrites it to work on its own kernel. Also, on a superficial level (which is exactly where many of these disputes take place), the man pages often say things like "FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Manual", not "BSD Manual".

No.

Yes! :-)

BSD != Linux.

That much is certain.

When will Linux fanboys realize that the Linux way is not the best way for everyone??